I Want to Make Black-Knight Fall In Love With Me! - Vol. 3 Ch. 16 - That Which Must Be Protected

[PHDInSillyism]

Gundam yuri axed. Billions must cry.

 

[Lalyjo]

ahistoric and categorically untrue. the vast majority of yuri authors are women/lesbians and audience demographics are majority women / queer people.

THANK YOU.
Yuri has been very pure for so long, for historical reasons but not only (hence the whole ‘holding hands’ Yuri meme). And that’s largely because of this weird puritanism that only ever seems to apply to wlw stories (debates I don’t see nearly as much around straight or mlm romances.)
The assumption is that anything even remotely sexual or erotic in a Yuri must automatically be a fetish or male gaze-y, when in reality plenty of mangakas are just… telling their own stories.

Luckily, we’re starting to see way more diversity in tone lately, since female authors (the majority of Yuri authors) are willing to explore the genre in more depth and/or more eccentricity but also because its audiences (and yes, that include the so-called ’dirty men‘) realised they are allowed to want a little spice in their Yuri romance.

What’s funny is that the freer Yuri becomes, the more I see these performative hot takes like: ‘Most Yuri is catered to men!’ Like… where?? Please, give me those -and don’t give me a hentai with lesbians in It- because most of the time, what I see is high school girls spending 60 chapters to figure out the other one’s love confession might not so platonic after all.. and I’m being nice..

gosh I’m ace and I usually don’t give a damn about sex but oh boy the puritanism around Yuri drives me nuts

 

[Enelreturns]

long as it is popular enough that it makes enough to pay the salary, why not let them just finish out the story to a natural end instead of immediately axing it?

Capitalism and shareholders, I'm afraid. It's taking up a spot that a theoretical series could be occupying to bring in more money. All they ever care about.

 

[AshyKnees23]

Dropping the gold digger Claire arc so early killed it imo.

 

[_hng_]

If you haven't heard, unfortunately this manga got axed. There's one more chapter after this. Sorry all.

You are telling me they gave us Wincest only to axe it immediately?

 

[tototototoo]

THANK YOU.
Yuri has been very pure for so long, for historical reasons but not only (hence the whole ‘holding hands’ Yuri meme). And that’s largely because of this weird puritanism that only ever seems to apply to wlw stories (debates I don’t see nearly as much around straight or mlm romances.)
The assumption is that anything even remotely sexual or erotic in a Yuri must automatically be a fetish or male gaze-y, when in reality plenty of mangakas are just… telling their own stories.

Luckily, we’re starting to see way more diversity in tone lately, since female authors (the majority of Yuri authors) are willing to explore the genre in more depth and/or more eccentricity but also because its audiences (and yes, that include the so-called ’dirty men‘) realised they are allowed to want a little spice in their Yuri romance.

What’s funny is that the freer Yuri becomes, the more I see these performative hot takes like: ‘Most Yuri is catered to men!’ Like… where?? Please, give me those -and don’t give me a hentai with lesbians in It- because most of the time, what I see is high school girls spending 60 chapters to figure out the other one’s love confession might not so platonic after all.. and I’m being nice..

gosh I’m ace and I usually don’t give a damn about sex but oh boy the puritanism around Yuri drives me nuts

My complaint was actually focused on both the purity crap where nothing ever happens and the overly crap sex stuff that’s clearly not meant for a female audience.